Many tales from Japanese folklore often feature a fascinating character called the tanuki. Depending on the story, this ...

Supernatural Monsters from Japan,” a traveling exhibition that explores the evolution of Japanese folklore while celebrating ...

This museum showcases paintings, sculptures, and woodblock prints, and has hosted collections from influential Western artists such as Marc Chagall and Salvatore Dali.

The American businessman Alan Medaugh, 81, has spent 50 years building up an unparalleled collection of woodblock prints by the famed Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858).

I Walked Japan's Kiso Valley and It Felt Like Stepping Into a Woodblock Print. A walking tour of the Kiso Valley offers glimpses of the golden age of Japan’s great printmakers.

The goldfish has an image of a simple pet, simply cared for, but in Japan these elegant creatures have a lengthy history as a part of both high-class culture and the common people’s everyday lives.

A traditional Japanese art form that you can to do at home with an IKO "Gyotaku" fish print kit. Ken Baldwin | Nov 19, 2024 Make artistic prints of your trophy catch.

Take for example Japanese painter Toyohara Chikanobu’s (1838-1912) woodblock print Swimming at Okazaki, No. 16. from the series of prints, Eastern Brocades, Day and Night Compared (1886 ...

Traditional Toyokuni Japanese Woodblock print of Actor "This print by one of the masters of woodblock printing Utagawa Toyokuni III. 1786-1864.The series,The 53 Stations of the Tokaidoa from 1852 is ...

Put together by the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, it is derived from the estate of businessman John Chandler Bancroft, which donated 3,700 Japanese woodblock prints to the museum in 1901.

There's an abundance of shoji, a raw pine wood; a collection of woodblock prints from Japan's Edo Period (1603 to 1868); and a few pops of flora. The result: a clean-cut, clutter-free testament to ...